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Semaglutide use in patients with type 2 diabetes moderately increases the risk of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.
Patients on semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) had a 32% increased relative risk of developing nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) compared to people not taking the drug, researchers ...
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic, while transformative in combating obesity, have been linked to irreversible vision impairment ...
But, after getting a CT-scan and seeing a neuro-ophthalmologist, it was revealed he had non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), a condition in which the loss of blood flow to the ...
Seven of the cases include people who experienced NAION after starting a GLP-1 drug; one person developed papillitis, a type of inflammation of the optic nerve; and another developed paracentral ...
For individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D), semaglutide is associated with a modestly increased risk for nonarterit ...
PATIENTS taking blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs are waking up with vision loss, researchers warn. Some reported terrifying changes to their vision mere days or weeks after taking the ...
NAION is a condition that causes sudden vision loss in one eye due to reduced blood flow to the optic nerve. The damaged ...